Gaston of Antioch

Gaston (1132-) was a bishop of the Principality of Antioch and a member of the Templar Order.

Biography
Bishop Gaston was born in Antioch in the Principality of Antioch to an ethnic French pilgrim family. Gaston was ordained as a priest in 1152 as an apprentice to Cardinal Jean Guiteau, serving at the Bishopric of Aleppo. He was a member of the Templar Order as the right-hand man of Jean Guiteau, and when his friend died, he became the leader of the Templar plot to remove the Assassins from the Holy Lands, backed by the Antiochenes.

In 1175 Faraj, a member of the Levantine Assassins, was sent to strike him. He entered the Cathedral of Antioch and placed a snake in bed with him, but the snake escaped his reach and slithered out of the room and into the hallway. Faraj tried to catch the snake, but it escaped his reach and he called off the assassination.